When I was in primary school it was mandatory to learn four languages: dansish, english, german & manderin, and then you could add french if you wanted (did that for one year before i went NOPE)
It was so confusing. I would start to think in german while learning manderin. Sometimes after an english class I forgot how to speak danish, and couldn't remember a single danish word. Which is my native language. It was so fustrating.
I found a way to help me switch between languages. When I was stuck in a language, I would count to ten in another. And sometimes I couldn't. But eventually I got it, and halleluja! I could think in my native language again.
What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.
TRANS IS BEAUTIFUL
These!
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
How it feels to be alive sometimes
Same
What i need right now is to just lay down and let the dirt consume me
Sometimes, i get really insecure about my lack of formal education when talking about politics, but then I remember some people have masters degrees and still voted for Donald Trump or Peter Dutton.
Empathy needs no books or lectures to be felt, I'm not saying education is unnecessary, its extremely necessary, but I'm sick of this "they didn't know any better" bullshit when it comes to fascism and oppression. The German people should have known better, and the American people should know a hell of a lot better after all that. I am not well educated, I dropped out of high school, and even before that, I struggled because of family violence and poverty, and I totally stopped trying at school in 7th grade because I was suicidal. There are many reasons peoples education gets disrupted, which often results in more poverty and oppression. But your lack of education justifies JACK SHIT.
I was 12 when I had a screaming match with my racist grandma over her defending Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, when i was 16, I vandalised public property with activist slogans demanding justice for the Indigenous Australians being unfairly and disproportionately incarcerated and imprisoned by Australian law enforcement, I was 17, homeless, and addicted to meth when i went to my first pro-Palestine rally outside Melbourne Parliament. You do not need to be well-educated or in a good place to feel empathy for others. You don't need to be religious to love thy neighbour. You don't need ANYTHING to he a good person.
If you ever try and tell me to my face that you "didn't know any better" after supporting fascists, I will curbstomp you so hard you'll get an education through amnesia therapy and brain injury rehab.
THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN
it's hilarious how if you do any amount of research into life or death melee combat the prevailing themes that emerge are that
you're gonna get tired very quickly
tired leads to injured, injured leads to tired, tired leads to—
you're not gonna be as composed as you expect
humans are more fragile than you think and also more durable than you think. both are true and neither stop them from dying of an infection later (DO NOT GET BITTEN)
DO NOT GET STABBED (generally good life advice)
DO GET A SPEAR
knights are faster than you think